I think the only scenario that Su'A gets a permanent spot this season is if we embrace this "mini-rebuild" and just throw guys like Pearson, Su'A, Opacic & Arrow straight in the deep end. A lot of people seem extremely against the idea, and I don't blame them, but I come from the NBA culture, if you aren't good enough to win a championship, tank, re-build, give your best young guys all the minutes, let them grow.
It's obviously not as efficient in the NRL, because we haven't got a lottery based draft system like the NBA, but the principle is the same in regards to putting your young players in a hyperbolic time chamber and possibly advancing their development by a full season or two.
It's also extremely unlikely that we'll do it, because we're presumably still good enough to make the top 8 this year, but if for whatever reason we decide 1/3rd of the way through the season that Hunt has already punched out, and we get an injury or two, I think it's our best course of action.
We could throw out something like -
1. Boyd (c)
2. Kahu
3. Opacic
4. Roberts
5. Pearson
6. Milford
7. Scarlett
8. Sims
9. McCullough
10. McGuire
11. Oates
12. Gillett
13. Arrow
14. Pangai Jr
15. Ese'ese
16. Su'A
17. Nikorima
Players omitted due to age / contract: Hunt, Mead, Thaiday, Blair, Glenn, Marshall.